Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch scientist and mathematician born in 1629. Huygens was known for his work with early studies of the rings of Saturn and later the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan. Huygens would grind his own lenses for his telescope and invented what is now known as the Huygenian eyepiece. He was also known for his work as a physicist‚ probabilist‚ and horologist. Placing two plano lenses in a telescope‚ separated by an air gap‚ creates the Huygenian eyepiece. The lenses should
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are four gas giants in our Solar System: Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ and Neptune. As noted‚ Jupiter is a traditional gas giant. Saturn is also a traditional gas giant. However‚ Uranus and
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Before The Geocentric Model Circa 150 B.C. Hipparchus put the Earth at the center of the Universe in his astronomical work. Hipparchus assumed that all of the solar system bodies visible to the naked eye (Moon‚ Mercury‚ Venus‚ Mars‚ Sun Jupiter and Saturn) revolved around the earth in an ellipse pattern (Jones‚ A.R.‚ n.d.). (O’Connor‚ 1999) Example Two Ptolemaic Model Circa 100 A.D Rome- A man by the name of Claudius Ptolemy developed the most widely known version of the geocentric model. This
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and she was Roman. She was one of the greatest and the most important goddess because all of the other gods and goddess relied on her. They relied on her because she was the goddess of agriculture‚ so she had to feed them. Ceres was the daughter of Saturn and Ops‚ and she was the sister of Jupiter‚ Pluto‚ Neptune‚ Vesta‚ and Juno. Ceres was the mother of Proserpine‚ and Proserpine’s father was Jupiter‚ Ceres’ brother. Ceres has many reasons why she is one of the greatest and the most important goddess
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thermoelectric generators (RTG). The mission plan for Voyager 1 and 2 was to look at all the gas giants in the solar system they called this plan the grand tour‚ the planets include were Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ and Neptune. Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft ever to take detailed pictures of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Voyager 2 is a very special space craft due to the fact that it vistited all 4 gas giants via a very special geometric arragement of the planets in which only happens every 176 years
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seasons. Motions in the cloud patterns indicate that‚ like Jupiter and Saturn‚ the basic meteorology of Uranus can be described as a striped pattern of winds. This means that‚ even though the pattern is difficult to distinquish‚ Uranus is striped‚ just like Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has 21 fascinating moons and a complicated ring system. The ring system is a completely different form of ring system than that found at Saturn or Jupiter. At Uranus there is even a very obvious partial ring‚ or "ring
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Name:Tremayne Gomes Student Number:211476462 Professor:Bruce Flattery Course: English Romantics Date: Apr/19/15 The Benefits of Pain and Suffering Explored By John Keats Johnathan Keats was not accustomed to an easy life as he went through an immense amount of suffering having lost his father‚ mother and brother before the age of twenty-four. As most would wonder‚ how does one who has gone through so much pain and suffering make sense of it all? In response to this question‚ Keats
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Jupiter is a giant gas planet with an outer atmosphere that is mostly hydrogen and helium with small amounts of water droplets‚ ice crystals‚ ammonia crystals‚ and other elements. Clouds of these elements create shades of white‚ orange‚ brown and red. Saturn is also a giant gas planet with an outer atmosphere that is mostly hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has traces of ammonia‚ phosphine‚ water vapor‚ and hydrocarbons giving it a yellowish-brown color. Uranus is a gas planet which has a lot of methane
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The universe is a canvass of innumerable objects such as planets and stars. If you lay on your back on a warm summer night I would not doubt that you would be enchanted‚ enticed‚ and bewildered by the luster and mirth of all the stars you may even just wilt on the thought of how large they are. If you browse the sky regularly some notable features you you might know is the tactful North Star and the puny Little Dipper. Would you like to learn more about the unique characteristics of our galaxy and
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Below are ten facts about Saturn and a table of statistics. FACT ONE Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System after Jupiter. It is so big that Earth could fit into it 755 times. FACT TWO Saturn is a slightly smaller version of Jupiter‚ with similar‚ but less distinctive‚ surface patterns. Its only main difference is its amazing rings. FACT THREE Saturn’s rings may be particles of an old moon orbiting the planet‚ smashed apart in a collision about 50 million years ago. FACT FOUR
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